This book was a lot of fun. Aggie has retired from working at a bank and has moved to San Antonio where she continues to write her Dear Aggie column about growing old gracefully.
She feels like it’s time for her to walk the walk so she joins a gym and happens upon a girl in the pool who is blue. She pulls her out and the girl is revived only to be hit and killed by a car the following day.
Now Aggie can’t stop trying to figure out who did it, nearly getting killed in the process.
The book is funny and suspenseful and since this is a series, I look forward to reading the next books. 🙂
I really wish I could remember how I heard about this book but I can’t. As soon as I learned of it, I placed a request for it at the Tulsa Public Library who had it on order.
This is an amazing book. I laughed, I cried, I truly enjoyed the book which is probably written for middle school kids. More amazingly, it was written BY a middle school kid.
Maya Van Wagenen decided to document her eighth grade year as she followed along an old book her dad gave to her. He had picked up Betty Cornell’s Teenage Guide to Popularity thinking it might turn out to be an interesting piece of Americana. Eventually, he decided to give it to Maya thinking she might find it amusing. With the encouragement of her mother, Maya decided to “do” the book through her eight grade year and document the results.
Maya is clearly smart as a whip and an excellent writer for someone of any age. But she had never been popular and decided this would be a good experiment to see what makes someone popular and if she could achieve popularity.
She arranged the book in order of difficulty taking one chapter a month and putting the advice into action. I particularly love Maya’s insight on posture. Everything we do at Athletic Mission is based upon a foundation of proper posture. In the past several years, I’ve notice and often commented on how pageant gals ruin their whole look in evening gown by not standing up straight. Let’s face it, over all (no matter the circumstances) someone who stands tall, with great posture just appears more confident.
I did a google search this morning to find out a little more about Maya (mostly because I just couldn’t believe she is only 15) and I came across this interview where she talks about the book and movie deal she has.
I highly recommend this book to anyone looking for a fun read. If you have teenagers, this is a great book for them to read. I loved it and look forward to seeing where Maya goes in life. 🙂
Another awesome book by Marcia Clark. I read her third book first, then went back and read the first two. All of them are excellent but this one might be my favorite.
A story about high school kids who shoot up a high school and their “competition” to be the best mass murders ever, beating out the Columbine shooters et al, had me on the edge of my seat.
It’s a great story with many unexpected twists and turns. In the end Rachel Knight and Bailey Keller get their man, but not the way they would have liked to.
I highly recommend this book and can’t wait for the next. As a side note, reading Marcia Clark’s books always make me want to drink a martini. This is not a bad thing. 😉
I liked this book. Before I read it, I wasn’t aware that Rich Kids of Instagram is a blog but I have gone to visit it since getting the book to read.
It’s a fun, fast read that goes through the lives of six rich kids and their desire to “make it”. They have no problems like the sorts that you and I might have because of their uber wealth and I found myself laughing at their predicaments.
If you’re looking for some fun in a book, I highly recommend this one. 🙂
Excellent! The first time I read a book by Dean Koontz was probably 25 years ago. I had nothing to read and my brother offered me a book. I looked at it and said, “No, I don’t think so” because it wasn’t what I usually read. He told me to trust him and give it a go and I became a HUGE Dean Koontz fan.
This book is not like any of those books and it kind of threw me at first. Koontz’s previous books were scary, terrifying, gripping. This book is gripping in a whole different way.
I loved the characters, the story itself and the way it’s told. I saw a review on Goodreads where the reviewer said he thought the book would have received better reviews if it had been written under a pseudonym. And he may be right because this book is just so different from what you’d be expecting if you’d read a lot of Koontz’s other books.
The story is told from the eyes of Jonah, a 9 year old boy when it started, but he is recalling it as a grown 57 year old man. Jonah wants to be a piano man like his Grandpa Teddy. It’s all he thinks about and he has quite a gift for the piano. He becomes friends with Malcom who is equally gifted on the saxophone.
Through the course of events that happen in the building where he lives, Jonah begins to solve murders that have taken place, that he saw in a dream. He gets this insight from a woman he calls Pearl who says she IS the City.
If you are a Dean Koontz fan, go into this with an open mind and I’m sure you will love this book as much as I did. I could not put it down and highly recommend it! 🙂
I really loved this book! Faye was stuck in a loveless marriage, made more apparent now that her daughter was off to university. She’d worked at the beauty salon since her daughter was six and had ended up staying way longer than she thought.
She was getting frustrated with her husbands lack of love and involvement in her marriage. One day on her way to work, she wandered into the deli and started talking with Dan, the owners Australian nephew.
Eventually, Faye grows strong enough to leave her husband and begin a relationship with Dan, crossing of items she’d put on her life list.
This is a wonderful book of growth. I loved watching Faye grow and change and become more confident throughout the book. I love that Dan loved her. Two thumbs up! 🙂
Such a FUN book! This is the fourth book in the Cherry Tucker Mystery series. I’ve not read the previous three books but I didn’t feel like I’d been left behind, a really great thing for series books. I also didn’t feel like there was too much back story given, something else I appreciated.
Cherry Tucker, artist, is hired by the drama teacher at Peerless Day Academy to help with the scenery for his upcoming theater production. It doesn’t take too long for him to tell her that he knows she can also help him find out who is sending him threatening text messages.
Soon, a secretary at the school winds up dead, a suspected suicide. But Cherry thinks that might not be the case. Then another secretary dies, and a teacher and Cherry finds herself conked on the head and headed that way herself.
With the help of Luke, a sheriff’s deputy she is trying to deny her feelings for, she ends up figuring out who’s behind the texts and subsequent murders.
I really liked this book and I definitely plan to go back and read the previous three! 🙂
This was such a FUN book! LOOT is a kids book that’s loaded with intrigue, excitement and a really good story.
Marsh watches his father, a jewel thief, fall from a roof in Amsterdam and die. He’s 13 and alone in the world as far as he knows but he’s been along with his dad his whole life and knows to follow the clues he left behind.
In the process, he finds out he has a twin sister, Jules, who he’s been separated from since they were small kids to try and keep the prophecy of their dying together from happening.
Jules and Marsh are sent to a group home where they meet Darius and Izzy. They all break out of the home and go on a huge adventure to steal back the 7 moonstones that Marsh & Jules’s dad stole many years ago and break the curse.
This is a fun, clever book with great characters. I give it two thumbs up! 🙂
Part of me must be a 15 year old boy because I really like these books. This is the second in the series and I liked it even better than the first.
Zach is known as Daniel in this book. He is sent on a mission and then seemingly ignored by The Program until the very end. Dropped off at a recruitment meeting for Camp Liberty, Daniel is supposed to kill the leader of the kids but he’s not supposed to go into the camp itself. When he realizes he can’t complete the mission without going into the camp, he goes in. Once he achieves the mission, he realizes that it only sets off a larger plot that he must then stop.
This book is full of intrigue and excitement. You think he isn’t going to make it out alive and, yet, he does.
I can’t wait to read the next in this series and I highly recommend it.
I really enjoyed this book which is the second book in a series. I didn’t read the first book, although I did check it out from the library but had to return it before I could finish.
This book is about three sisters who have the same father. They come from very different backgrounds other than that but their grandmother invites them to her house, where they used to come as children, for one last summer.
After the summer, Mamaw plans to sell the family home. She wants the girls to remember that they were sisters and the fun they had together while they were growing up.
It’s an eventful summer and the girls do draw closer. The story is wonderful and I plan to read the next book and go back and see what I missed in the first. 🙂
Fit to be Dead by Nancy G. West
